Bottom of the Graeco-Roman polished red ware bowl of the fifth century C. E., used as the lid of the jar in which the Nag Hammadi codices were secreted. Acquired from Salib 'Abd al-Masīḥ at Chenoboskeia (al-Qaṣr). Salib received the bowl from...

Graeco-Roman polished red ware bowl of the fifth century C. E., used as the lid of the jar in which the Nag Hammadi codices were secreted. Acquired from Salib 'Abd al-Masīḥ at Chenoboskeia (al-Qaṣr). Salib received the bowl from Khalīfah Alī...

Munīr saw the codices as a child in the home of his father al-Qamṣ Basīlīyūs and led James M. Robinson to Muḥammad 'Alī Khalīfah al-Sammān, Rāghib Andarāwus al-Qiss 'Abd al-Sayyid and Salib 'Abd al-Masīḥ.